NASA Delivers High-Def View of Venus Transit

Date:

June 6, 2012

Source:

Reuters / Powered by NewsLook.com

Summary:

Instruments aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) have captured stunning images of the June 5 and 6 transit of Venus across the Sun. The images give a fine detail view of an event that will not happen again until 2117.

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